You can now see Bounty Immigrants on the www.records.nsw.gov.au, click Immigration upper right hand corner is the link for the film of Bounty Immigrants... Jenelle. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Doughty" <adoughty01@optusnet.com.au> To: <lanark@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:13 AM Subject: [Lanark] Mc Donald immigrating > Hello Elizabeth, > > My husband's McDonalds sailed from the Isle of Skye on the "Midlothian" in > 1837, the Buchannans sailed on the "Duncan" in 1838. It appears at the > time > of immigrating they were all living and working on the Isle of Skye, so > they > may have come from other parts of Scotland before then. These immigrants > to > Australia were known as Bounty Immigrants. Between 1828 and 1842 many > Scots > from all over Scotland, took up the offer to immigrate Down Under, with > the > help of one Rev. John Dunmore Lang. You will find his story on this > website:- > > http://www.mmcs-ngo.org/?p=61 > > If you scroll down through his story to the "Midlothian" you can read > about > the Scottish immigrants. Rev. Lang was afraid that with so many Irish > convicts and free settlers sailing to the Penal Colony looking for a > better > life, that Catholicism would take over the new land, so he encourage > Scottish Protestants to find a better life in the Colony. However, for > awhile things did not go that well for them when they arrived, however > that > is another story. > > I have the Bounty Immigrant CD and if anyone would like me to look up to > see > if a missing Scottish family, may have taken up Rev. John Dunmore Lang's > offer for a better life, I can check on the CD for you. > > Regards, > Janice > Belrose > In chilly and raining Sydney Town